The Cottage, Hilmarton Lodge

The Cottage at Hilmarton Lodge is an estate cottage built around 1850 by H. Weaver for T. Poynder. It is constructed of squared rubble stone and features a Bridgwater tile eaves roof with decorative barge boards and turned pendants. The building is one and a half storeys tall and has a cross plan.

The east front includes a two-light mullion-and-transom window with a hoodmould on each side of a central projecting gable. This gable features a Tudor-arched door with a hoodmould and a single light with a hoodmould above it. Inside, there is a Tudor-arched inner door. The side walls have lancet windows. The south end gable has a two-light window above and a three-light mullion-and-transom window below, both with hoodmoulds.

At the rear, there is a large two-shaft stack at the angle of the rear wing, which also has an end stack. The west and north walls of this wing are made of red brick, while the south wall is stone and includes an upper pair of eaves-breaking casements and a ground floor triple casement. The design of the cottage is based on a plan from H. Weaver's "Hints on Cottage Architecture" published in 1848, which was originally intended for a cottage on Chilvester Hill, Calne, built for Lord Crewe by Weaver in 1844.